Bologna massacre: A bomb (later attributed to the far-right) explodes in the waiting room of the Bologna train station, killing 85 people and injuring more than 200. Over the next four decades, right-wing extremists Francesca Mambro, Giuseppe Valerio “Giusva” Fioravanti (life sentences), Luigi Ciavardini (30 years, all three final), and Gilberto Cavallini (life sentence in 2020, the ninth of his criminal career) will be convicted for the massacre. New evidence will also emerge regarding Paolo Bellini, an extremist from Avanguardia Nazionale. This is the most serious terrorist attack in Italy, second in Europe only to the 2004 massacre at Madrid’s Atocha train station, which killed 191 people.
